Quotes About Realization

We can't begin to free ourselves from a trap of seeing life in a certain way or believing certain things unless we realize that we're in a trap. Only then can we begin to break free.

A free fall from joy to.. Truth.

the realization that my life is not the sum of who loved me - but rather the sum of who I have loved.

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few. —Bill Watterson cartoonist

Raise the children you were given, not the ones you wish you had.

At first, there was nothing. At second, there was everything. And too late he realized that what he had put into his mouth was not candy at all, but a key.

Hidden in the pockets of the things that frighten him most is the realization that he doesn't like his mother. Once, he did, but she was different back then, full of love and light. Now she's a ghost playing at being alive, a faded sheet hung upon a coatrack, only there to ensure he doesn't become a ghost too.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

But that's the hardest part of healing.' What?' Realizing there's no one to hate.

Even in high school, I had friends that I didn't know were gay until years later. I'd find out on Facebook or something and be like, 'Oh, that explains some things ' or 'Wow, no wonder they were so cool.'

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.

Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?

No sabremos lo que podemos llegar a ser hasta que no sepamos lo que somos capaces de hacer.

repentance is sometimes described as "coming to our senses" (see Luke 15:17)- 2 Tim. 2:25-26). It involves a waking up to the fact that we have been deceiving ourselves and that our ideas, attitudes, values, or goals have been wrong.

went to school with African-American girls during my entire adolescence in Michigan and never noticed them as potential girlfriends, never even wanted to meet them. How did that happen? I'm nine thousand miles from home and a pernicious wall of segregation I never noticed in high school suddenly materializes before my eyes, ten years after the fact. A young man should travel.

No fue sino hasta que sucumbimos ante la tentación que pudimos tomar conciencia de la insensatez de nuestros deseos

as Clowney well notes, "we must recognize that this is not spiritualization in our usual sense of the word, but the very opposite. In Christ is realization. It is not so much that Christ fulfills what the temple means; rather Christ is the meaning for which the temple existed."[139

So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said. 'Except it feels good now, at this moment.

unsure how to respond. "But I guess we knew that without strutting up here to have a look. Just thought you ought to see it." Norm walked away,

You have no idea how long a year is until you're stone sober.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we can not realize the supreme happiness of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations....

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, "My heart resumed its place." Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been "as much afraid of me as I had been of him.